This week’s small pleasures #327

It really feels like that transition period between summer and autumn. The mornings are darker, the Japanese anemones are in … More

What’s on my bookshelf #20

Another month, another look at what has been on my, and other’s bookshelves. The what’s on your bookshelf challenge is hosted by … More

Some weeks pass with very little happening, while others are full of things that before you know it, you realise … More

What a lovely sunny day it has been! It was a bit too warm to garden out the front of … More

As regular readers know, we lost our little black Charlie recently. He was, like all cats, quite a character, bossy, … More

What with one thing and another, the week was one of highs and lows: hearing from friends I hadn’t heard … More

Autumn is here. February saw parts of the North Island receive 400% of the normal rainfall, and Napier had its … More

I love pasta. Whenever I get a new cook book, it is highly likely that the first thing I will … More

Here we are at the end of February already, and what a month it has been for New Zealand with … More

As the clean up after Cyclone Gabrielle continues (with more rain falling there over night, and a tornado hitting Waihi … More